"Lean forward! It's like riding a bike!"

At the beginning of the first two days, the temperature dropped below zero, and today it is even colder, and the ice around the lake is thick.

Four or five meters from the shore, John slid backwards and shouted to the boy, "Lean forward!

"Bang!"

"Oh! it hurts. Old John glanced over and asked, "This is the first time." ”

Han Xuan rolled over, his arms stretched out to keep his balance, and said hatefully: "The eighth time! It's the eighth time!"

"Hey, look, isn't there an improvement this time? I think I've skated at least five meters!"

"Yes, four and a half meters of it was my face rubbed out of the ice!" After speaking, as if he was afraid that Old John would not believe it, he pointed to his red face and showed him, and sat on the ice with his scarf loose.

Martinez made a joke, followed the figure skating on TV, circled the boy a few times, and said, "Why, when it comes to such a little thing, our little genius is going to give up!?"

"Hell, don't think I don't know, you want to keep watching my jokes, right?"

If Han Xuan wasn't too short, he really wanted to punch him in the face, this strange appearance of squeezing his eyebrows was really annoying.

"No, no, no, how about I teach you?" Martinez looked at Old John, slid to the boy's side, stopped, bowed his head and said, "His skills are not very good, I'll teach you, it only takes 10 minutes to learn!"

"Well, you're indebted, aren't you?

Hearing his words, John rolled up his sleeves and shouted in a loud voice: "Come and see who is faster, you lost to me the year before last!"

"Yes! Compete with him! Martinez. ”

Anderson shouted, turning his head to look around: "I'll be the banker, do you bet on you? Win one and lose one! Up to five dollars." ”

"I'll press five pieces, block John and win!" said Old Barton, who had made a hole in the ice not far away, and shouted back at his words.

"I'm going to bet on Martinez. ”

"Jones, you've got a lot of vision! I'm not going to lose. ”

Martinez's smile bloomed before Jones continued, "Help me press five more Johns!." ”

"Damn!"

Grief raised his middle finger and said to old John: "Then it's better to compare, if you see that pine tree, that is, the one whose tip is crushed by the snow, there it is!"

"Listen to you!"

Watching the excitement was never a big deal, and the others quickly gathered around, and Aunt Kelly shouted to the lake: "Come on!

John, who had been ready, turned around when he heard her say and gave a thumbs up, "Of course!

"Let's get started, my neck is sore"

Before he finished speaking, Anderson waved his hand down, and his voice came out at the same time: "Go!"

"You're playing tricks!" Seeing John start quickly, Martinez immediately set off to catch up.

The boy scratched his head, wondering how things had come to this in a matter of minutes, and besides, who was going to teach himself to skate now?

Looking around, almost all of them paid attention to Old John and them, holding the ice with his hands, and stood up and walked just two steps.

"Bang!"

"Alas"

Fat Ding was playing nearby, and when he saw the strange posture of his master, he trotted all the way over with his fleshy palms stepping on the ice.

Xue Han Xuan lay on the ground and moved forward, and was killed countless times in an instant by the boy with a look of shame.

It snowed in Montana every year, but it was rarely as big as it is today.

The half-man-high snow is easy to pile up, the snow on the shore is relatively thin, just enough to settle down, and almost everyone who can't skate is here, and the snowmen are pinched into various shapes and placed on the shore.

When Han Xuan came, his parents were muttering to Joanna: "You said that you will do this below, will it be too big." ”

"It should be, so that the upper part and the head are in trouble. ”

"Smaller then?"

"It's boring to be small, someone has to stand up and pile it. ”

"Or you can have a crane. ”

"So" Han's father caught a glimpse of his son beside him, cordially beckoned him to come over, helped him dust off the snow, and asked, "Do you want to build a snowman?"

The boy looked at the two-meter-tall snowball in front of him, knew what his father was thinking, and quickly shook his head.

"There are monsters in Lake Rota!" At this time, Martinez, who had just set off, returned, his expression was very excited, and shouted loudly in the distance.

"Water monster?" Old Patton fell from his fishing rod, he had lived here for 60 years, heard countless legends of the Flathead water monster, and was shocked at the moment, and quickly asked, "Where is John?"

"He's sliding farther than me and should be behind. ”

"Look, he's coming!"

Old Barton looked over the lake, saw that John was safe, breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Martinez dissatisfied: "What water monster?"

"A group of black shadows several meters long, just below the ice I passed!"

"It's true! Let's go ashore first!"

Seeing that he didn't believe him, Martinez took Old Patton's hand and dragged him to the shore as if he were not joking.

When people saw him like this, their hearts were a little hairy, and they hurriedly followed their companions to the shore, and the lake soon became empty.

John came back and sat on the snow panting, his face a little pale, and the men on the shore noticed that something was wrong with them, and put down their tools and walked over.

Hundreds of people surrounded the two of them, talking about something, and Han's father led the boy and squeezed in, and asked John and Martinez, "What's wrong?"

"There are water monsters, they say there are water monsters here. ”

"You said Rota Lake?" Father Han was stunned when he heard Old Barton's words, and turned his head to look at the two of them: "What does Rota Lake look like, Rota Lake is so shallow, shouldn't it?"

"About seven or eight meters, or maybe a cub of the water monster in Lake Flathead!" Martinez said after recovering from his senses.

"Boss, don't listen to his nonsense, there are about a dozen, four meters long. John pulled Martinez over and continued, "There are white patterns on the sides, and they revolve around me, so I can see it clearly, yes." ”

The boy's face was full of doubts, he had lived here for ten years, and nothing like this had ever happened, so he raised his head and said: "Let's go and see, stand on the shore and see, the snow is not deep in the birch forest, you can walk over." ”

"How far is it, John?" Father Han asked with a nod.

"More than a hundred meters, pretty much that's it. ”

"Boss, do you want to bring a gun?" Old Barton was a little uneasy.

"Now go back and get it, and meet here in twenty minutes. ”

The cowboys' house was not far away, and they quickly rushed over, and after the boy's assurance, he also followed, and was protected by dozens of people in the middle, and his father was relieved.

The people who walked in front flattened the snow, and to him it was like a flat path, and the forest was quiet, and the snow on the branches of the trees kept falling.

The cowboys all came out with guns and held them up nervously in the air, and the distance of more than 100 meters was soon reached, and there were traces left by skate shoes on the surface of the lake.

John looked at it carefully, made sure it was right, and nodded violently, and a loading sound followed.

It was quiet under the ice, and there was no scene as they said, and after waiting for more than ten minutes, nothing abnormal happened, and Martinez's head was sweating, staring at the ice without moving.

Old Barton picked up a stone and smashed it into the lake, and there was a sound like a mirror shattering, and a white line quickly disappeared from under the ice, and soon a dozen or hundreds of white shadows appeared, entangled together.

"That's it, that's it!" Martinez muttered in fright, his hand Remington facing that side.

"There are real water monsters!" I don't know who said it.

Han Xuan stood on tiptoe and looked at it for a long time, pulled Labaton's arm, and said, "Could this be a fish?"

"I don't know, it's the first time I've seen this when I've grown up here. Barton looked back and whispered to the other cowboys, "Do you know what kind of fish is that long?"

"I don't know, I think it's only in the sea. ”

"I have one in my hometown, but I haven't seen it. ”

One of the cowboys whispered back, and all eyes were immediately on him, and Barton Sr. continued to ask, "Aren't you from Canada?"

"Well, I immigrated here when I was a child, and I heard my parents say that this kind of big fish is in the Fraser River. ”

"Sturgeon? You're talking about sturgeon? ”

Martinez suddenly turned around and said, and then stretched out his head to look at the lake: "The teacher said that the United States also has them, and it really looks like them." ”

“……”

"You know?"

"Yes, I was introduced in class. ”

John's mouth was wide open, not knowing what to say.

He looked at Han's father and raised his legs to kick Martinez's ass.

The black guy rubbed his face against the ice, and slipped in the middle of the group of tall sturgeons, and one of them stuck his head out of the hole that Old Patton had smashed just now, and opened his mouth to bite him.

……

When the alarm was lifted and people returned to the lake, Martinez was stripped of his shirt and ran home in a trembling state.

Not far from the shore, Hill dusted off the dirty snow from the upper layer and filled the bucket with small half snowflakes.

Joanna followed her boyfriend, walked back with the bucket, came under the snowman, tied a rope to the handle of the bucket, and soon began to rise.

The father stood by and rubbed his hands, and when he saw that the snowman was almost ready, he nodded in satisfaction and continued to get snow.

Han Xuan sat on the top of the snowman, more than five heights above the ground, poured the snow in the bucket on it, patted it with his hands, looked at his father's back, and muttered quietly.

"Grande, this is the exploitation of child labor!"

The leisure time passed quickly, and the sky began to darken.

The father carried his son home, and the laughter of the surrounding employees kept coming.

The snowman stood by the lake, his hands made of twigs, and a few clothes hung on it.

Today is the last Thursday of November, a snowy Thanksgiving Day, and a turkey feast awaits them when they come home.